Ecology Quiz 83 (20 MCQs)

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1. The scientific name for an organism includes which taxa?

Correct Answer: B) Genus and species.

2. Approximately 90 percent of energy iconsumed by an organism is lost to .....

Correct Answer: B) Inefficiencies in its metabolism.

3. A tick living on a dog

Correct Answer: C) Parasitism.

4. Sure

Correct Answer: A) Safe.

5. An example of an abiotic factor is:

Correct Answer: B) Sun.

6. Which of the following is a community of plants that is relatively stable and has reached the end stage of ecological succession?

Correct Answer: D) Climax community.

7. What is the science of organizing, classifying and naming living things.

Correct Answer: A) Taxonomy.

8. It takes about 200 years with primary succession and about 50 years with primary succession to reach this conclusion

Correct Answer: A) Climax community.

9. How many liters of water

Correct Answer: A) 1L.

10. What is a Decomposer?

Correct Answer: B) Its an plant that eats dead animals and plants.

11. Environmental сontamination earthquake cliff

Correct Answer: C) Environmental pollution.

12. In an ecosystem there are more ..... than .....

Correct Answer: B) Producers, consumers.

13. Non-living things

Correct Answer: B) Abiotic.

14. Which term best describes the flow of water over land?

Correct Answer: A) Runoff.

15. What kind of organism gets energy by eating living things?

Correct Answer: B) Consumer.

16. Study of interactions between organisms and with the physical and chemical environment

Correct Answer: A) Ecology.

17. What are some problems associated with low tide?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

18. What is global warming?

Correct Answer: B) The rapid rise of Earth's average temperature.

19. A tertiary consumer would get ..... % of the stored energy in the secondary consumer.

Correct Answer: D) 10%.

20. What affects population density

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.